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Newspaper
Newton Record
Location
Newton, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 11, 1898
Page
4
Murphy reminiscences and social roundup list activities of residents. Nellie Reynolds hosts Sunday school picnic. visits to poor farm. Udo and baby guests near Prairie City. Westbrook and Fenner families noted. schooling and teaching plans. new carriage and bicycle joys. trips to Mingo and Cincinnati encampment mentioned. illnesses and boils noted. multiple visits among Reynolds, Russell, Trevitts, and Griebeling sisters.
Palo Alto reports Mrs. O Connor of Des Moines visiting sister Mrs. Alice Desmond. Mrs. Janeway ill and hoped to recover. J A W Adair of Kelloge called locally. Oliver Blackledge delivered fat sheep to Newton butchers. Will Brown harvested oats at 50 bushels per acre. Will Kays opens a new coal shaft near Murphy. Geo Hart cuts hedges to replace with hog tight fence. Will Fraker sick with head gathering. Dr Engle attends and sees improvement. Mrs McClain visits nephew Master James Sanford Blakely. she returns to Colfax. Fales 50 acres south of Gibford school sold for 3,200. Alfa home prospect. Geo Harlan has a coal bank and good coal quality. Tom Clark drills a deep well on his home farm.
Abe Adamson of Newton has his Adamson Grove farm house and barn painted. A group of young men plans a Monday departure for Minnesota. Howard Frizell tends weeds on his mother’s farm. Cattle from Bob Efnor and Sam Dugan go to Newton for butcher. Walter and Katie Walsh visit Davenport. Blackberry crop nearly a failure. Several wives report losses to chicken thieves. Dr. Austin’s family visit near Murphy. Misses Jackson and Wilson visit G. W. Newell. Mount Zion social well attended. Carl Livingston helps Harry French in his busy blacksmith shop. Some farmers begin fall plowing. Miss Agnes Martin visits Jim Martin. Will Horn and Emma Fritz wed. Walter Ditchier buys a new buggy. Florence Downing visits Mattie Selle. Laws Crews builds new fence. Henry McKinney of Kellogg visits Bailey home. Wm. Clop of Sugar Creek dies. buried Sunday aged 6 months and 20 days, heart trouble suspected.
Galesburg reports a rain dampening turnout at the Reform church fair though town notes show ongoing growth. Dr. Carpenter is erecting a large bar n, Holmes is building a cottage, and residents like Wm George and wife spent recent days in Pella as others travel and visit.
A slate of local movements and visits fills Kellogg as A H Stuart from Two Harbors visits his parents north of town. Misses Braley and Morgan return from Omaha Exposition. Fannie Morgan visits Newton. Mrs Wolverton and son Lester visit Kellogg. Davie Burke returns from Atlantic and Mankato. Leona and Carrie Dysart of Lyonville attend Newton Normal. Mrs Conard and three children head to Omaha Exposition and Falls City. C J Brien visits with Rock Island relatives. Pemberton family occupies Burton property. A F Callison and family and Schuyler Morris group, plus Ida Morris Rachel Wilson and Charles Simpson, visit S A Morris Sunday.
Irs, Sam Smith on the sick list. Mr and Mrs John Devereux welcome a baby boy, mother and child doing well. Marie Selie returns home from Colorado after health visit. Herman Selle and Sam Smith attend relatives. Nellie Harbison visits sister Wim Selle in Richland.
A creamery burned in Metz last Thursday at about nine o’clock. The expansion separator saved part of the plant and the attached dwelling through neighborly aid. Insurance status unknown. rebuilding unlikely. Local notables Elmer Hough, George Allen, Rev. Cowan, Hazel, Platt Vincent, Mrs Katings and Mary ie visiting. Mound Prairie township to hold a Sunday school convention later this month. Oats and wheat yields reported above average by thrashers. Jasper County praised for strong agricultural output.
John Scharf shows slight recovery after illness as relatives drop in from Burling ton and Garner to visit. Mrs. Chyle and Mrs. Rhinehart join John Scharf’s circle while Miss Tillie Foehelinger visits John Hall and family. Ethel Monlux returns home from Garner after a visit with the Monlux family. Mrs. Josiah Fisher hosts forty friends for a pleasant gathering. Joshua Scharf ships eight carloads of corn to Charlie Talmage for export. Owles and Cochrane arrange to occupy the entire Monroe bank building as their store, with the Sayings bank moving to a new Sayings Bank site. Mrs. Fannie Bennett visits her father, Mr. LaFevre, and Mrs. George Greasby visits her mother, Mrs. Huddleston, in Prairie City. Rev. Wiseman of Houston preaches at the M. E. church, and lecturing by Matilda Fletcher, known locally as Mrs. Wiseman, follows at IA R Hall on Is Man an Angel and Man and his Whims. A marriage at Dr. Miller’s Des Moines residence unites Rev. A. V. Knepper and Miss Nona Hall of Monroe, with the community extending heartfelt congratulations.
Jmmie Luella Carnahan born April 13 1874 died August 1 1898 at age 24 years 3 months 18 days. A Methodist member since age 12 baptized in Reasnor. Married Marvin McDaniel in 18M. One child and a husband parents two brothers three sisters and many relatives and friends mourn her. Mr Trout and Mrs Trout sold their half interest in the hardware store to H M Reasoner.
The Newton area reports family visits and sales of properties, including John F. Wheeler selling his homestead to Charles Sipe and Sipe selling to Meads. Local residents discuss hog losses, a bicycle tournament where Seasnor and Fern and Vina Bean win prizes, and nearby travel for church meetings. A Hong Kong dispatch quotes Aguinaldo. Market outlook boosts August trade, noting western farmer prosperity and money supply. Also mentions a grocery offer and a clubbing subscription deal.
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